I'm not entirely sure how the IRS looks at this as self-dealing can be not so black and white in a situation like this. 

. * Deducted $100 in rent twice saying food was spoiled due to refrigerator issues (fixed promptly)* Rejected the contractors being sent by home warranty company thrice saying they were rude and asked for alternate contractors* Told me that they found black widow spiders and were concerned that  the pests could harm their kid .

Black on yellow?

Go All Blacks!

He saw the tiniest trace amount of black dots (from shower condensation) and asked if that meant there was structural problems with the roof.  

My goals at this point are to divest myself of some perennially unprofitable properties, and turn the remaining ones so they are firmly in the black. 

@Ramon AlvarezConnect with the Worcester Black Diamond RE meeting by Anne she is a hard money lender.Paul

Along with all the great information and interaction on BP you should get involved in the local REI associations such as Black Diamond and Boston AREIA.

Like multiple shotguns bought by investors and each been refurbed and given a different pastel, individual houses just bought and heavily updated, the tenants are slowly changing the demographics (eg not poor and black, but young and white), and so forth.In fact, the pastel thing is actually infectious.

So if you denied a 300 African American, or Jewish person any lawyer would argue that the real reason was he was black, Jewish etc.